Fadhila el-Farouk

is
an Algerian author and journalist who currently lives in Beirut. She was born
in November 1967 in Arris, in the Batna Province of Algeria. She studied Medicine
for two years at the University of Batna before changing to the University of
Constantine to study Arabic Language and Literature, graduating in 1994. She
gained an MA in 2002 on “The structure of Arabic women’s novels in Algeria” and
is now pursuing her PhD on “The writings of Ghada al-Samman considered through
Reception Aesthetics”. She has published a collection of short stories and four
novels. Some of her works have been translated into Spanish, French and
Italian. She has published numerous serialised stories in newspapers and
magazines and has also written several works for radio.